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Friday Media Summary

By Jennifer Pfanzelt

GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES/COURTS

Washington Post: Resumed military panels face new challenges
Peter Finn – 12/04/2009

Miami Herald: Guantánamo judge won’t expand Sudanese captive’s war
crimes case
CAROL ROSENBERG – 12/04/2009

Huffington Post: Try, Try and Try Again: the Military Commissions
that Couldn’t
Devon Chaffee, Advocacy Counsel, Human Rights First – 12/03/2009

WISCONSIN RECUSAL

Wisconsin State Journal: Justice Roggensack: Rule upheld First
Amendment rights of voters
JUSTICE PATIENCE DRAKE ROGGENSACK – 12/04/2009

GABLEMAN CAMPAIGN ETHICS

UW Badger Herald: Complaint against Justice Gableman moves forward
Alicia Yager – 12/04/2009

FEDERAL NOMINATIONS

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/All Politics Blog: Key Senate panel
endorses Butler judicial nomination
Diana Marrero – 12/3/2009

Michelle Malkin: “Loophole Louie:” Another day, another liberal
activist judge; Update: Sen. Judiciary Cmte approves 12-7 on party
line vote 12/3/2009

Citizen Link: Conservative Lawmakers Continue to Fight Judicial Nominees
12/03/2009

Charleston Gazette/Sustaine Outrage: Senate remembers, promptly
forgets, how to do voice votes on judicial nominees
Andrew Clevenger – 12/03/2009

CAPERTON V. MASSEY

AP: W.Va. court asked to reconsider Massey ruling
12/03/2009

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT/COURTS

NY Times/Opinionator: Selective Empathy
LINDA GREENHOUSE – 12/03/2009

IMMIGRATION COURTS

Courthouse News Service: Group Pleas in Immigration Cases Violate the
Law, 9th Circuit Rules
ANNIE YOUDERIAN – 12/02/2009

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

LA Times: Justice Department’s top deputy, David Ogden, to quit
Josh Meyer – 12/04/2009

Blog Of Legal Times: Ogden to Resign, Effective in February
Mike Scarcella and David Ingram – 12/03/2009

JUDICIAL TAKINGS

Washington Post: Shifting sands
Editorial – 12/04/2009

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS/COURTS

San jose Mercury News/AP: Jan. hearing set on Nev. personhood initiative
12/03/2009

FEDERAL JOURNALIST SHIELD LAW

Main Justice: Media Shield Bill Still Stalled in Senate Panel
Andrew Ramonas – 12/03/2009

Radio Business Report: Reporters remain unshielded
12/03/2009

JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT

Charleston Post And Courier: Judge’s rating remains the same
Robert Behre – 12/04/2009

Arizona Republic: Complaints vs. judges filed by Hendershott
Michael Kiefer – 12/04/2009

Scranton Times-Tribune: Judges’ beaches made of quicksand
Editorial – 12/04/2009

STATE COURT VACANCIES (PENNSYLVANIA)

Wilkes-Barre Times Leader: Rendell in no hurry to fill county judge
vacancy, office says
Bill O’Boyle – 12/04/2009

STATE COURTS/DIVERSITY

Texas Lawyer: Few Minorities Hold Positions as Court Law Clerks,
Staff Attorneys in Texas
Mary Alice Robbins – 12/04/2009

Arkansas Times: The all-white Supreme Court
Max Brantley – 12/03/2009

STATE COURTS/BUDGETS

Quad-City Times: Ternus: Iowa’s financial woes hit court system
disproportionately
Rod Boshart – 12/04/2009

Columbus Dispatch: Madison County judge decrees bigger budget for
court Holly Zachariah – 12/03/2009

CENTER FOR COMPETETIVE POLITICS

County Record: Letter to The Editor
Sean Parnell, President of the Center for Competitive Politics – 12/03/2009

Full post as published by The Gavel on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).